AMSTERDAM — (BUSINESS WIRE) — February 2, 2015 —
Printr has launched a
Kickstarter
campaign for their new product The Element. Through the
crowdfunding platform, consumers can preorder the product and become the
first ones to enjoy a productive and painless 3D printing experience.

Douwe Bart Mulder, CEO of Printr:“When my friends and I first
started out with 3D printing, we had to spend hours and hours trying to
master all the different programs that are needed to print a simple
keychain. Even when we did figure it all out, the slicer kept crashing,
we had to constantly watch the printer and eventually, we ran out of
things to print.”

Printr introduces The Element. The Element is an intuitive plug &
play USB dongle designed to bring a productive and painless 3D printing
experience. Just plug the Element into your 3D printer and you are ready
to go. This means that from now on, everybody will be able to make use
of the possibilities of 3D printing.

The Element is designed to be easy for beginners and versatile enough
for the pros. On top of having full control over your printer’s settings
over the web, The Element also allows offline streaming. This means that
you don’t need an Internet connection. When you power up The Element, it
will send out a Wi-Fi hotspot and by connecting to it, you can stream
your files through The Element to your 3D printer.

No 3D printer? No problem!

Whether someone owns a 3D printer or not,
formide.com will
be the platform to go to. Designs can be streamed straight to a 3D
printer at home or to one of the print facilitator partners that will
print it on a different location. Printed objects can then be shipped to
your home or picked up locally. Printr is connecting all the services of
3D printing out there into one platform, from 3D printer manufacturers
to content providers and print facilitators, enabling anyone to bring
their ideas to life with 3D printing.

The Element is available now on
Kickstarter
for 85EUR (95USD). After the Kickstarter campaign retail prices for The
Element will be 125EUR (140USD). The beta version of Formide will be
available for backers right after the campaign.